The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-09
Welded IN DEATH
/ Chapter from the Grim Story Of Charleston's
pombardment,

Philadelphia Press.
Across the level tongue OF land from
which the battle-scarred, earthquake
shaken city OF Charleston looks East
ward stretch the grass-cov mounds
which are all that is left OF the mighty
civilizations that Lee and Beaure-
,ard built and armed nearly quar-
Ter OF century ago. Approaching
The bank Tapped by the lazy wavelets
Of the Ashley, these traces OF the de-
ensive works OF that era ran North
ward OF a peaceful battle-ground in
which the dropping branches OF the
magnolia and palmetto trees sweep
The tops OF the stones that record the
names OF men and women who have
'ound rest beneath that sod in the
generations that have passed since the
stalwart and splendid Huguenot pill
,rims who have escaped Carriere's
massacre established the city
and the state. A perpetual peace
dwells upon the spot; the fra
GRANGE OF roses and magnolias per-
tunes the atmosphere; the remnants OF
the forts have been smoothed by the
indomitable hand of time into fitting
semblance with the scene; veterans OF
the arboreal growth the scars OF the
shot and shell that once whistled and
screamed from the great guns OF Dahl
gren S monitors and Gilmore's batter
les over this lovely Gods Acre OF the
Southern land; and between the leaf
nge of the sturdy trees the visitor
catches glimpses OF famous old st.
Michael's splre and all the broad and
beautiful vista OF river, city and sea
that extends to the horizon OF the At
antic. 1t is the ancient and venera-
BILE cemetery OF Christ Church Parish,
around which Beauregard drew his
miitery lines of decentralization and
so brought the rude and noisy hustle
OF war into intrusion upon the ever
lasting sleep OF South Carolinians
who had preached notification and
talked states rights five lustrums be-
fore speech became powder and shot
and bloodshed.
The western sun battles in golden
glory one of the most prominent mon
uments in this city OF the dead-a
slender and graceful marble shaft
browning turfed hillock that from
time to time blooms with the profit
gate beauty OF flowers that bespeaks
assiduous and indefatigable care for
the memory OF the tenant OF the tomb.
On the face that is turned toward the
sunset is the inscriptions
MARGARET PICKENS DE ROCHELLE.
DEC. earn, 1864.
When South Carolina seeded from
the Union and lit the fire OF the civil
war her governor was Francis w. Pick
ems, q member OF the slave-holding
aristocracy that boosted OF Its blue
blood, and, like the feudal system Of
men and women. To that rank Gov.
ernor Pickens was entitled, and oil
all the fair and lovable women to
whom his distinguished family had
given birth no one was sweeter Oh
more beautiful than the daughter
who, when Major Anderson lowered
the flag on Sumter. was budding into
a charming womanhood. 1t has been
truly said that the war was prolong-
ed by the courage and persistency
with which the women OF the South
imbued the men. No history has
ever adequately told the sacrifices
that they made, the suffering that
they patiently endured to cheer and
prompt the soldiers and sailors who
served under the banner OF The best
cause. Nowhere between the Poto.
mac and the Mexican Gulf was their
spirit OF answering devotion more
manifest and active than in the cap
ital of the Keystone State OF the
Southern Confederacy; and there was
no patriotic project mooted in which
women could share to which Margaret
Pickens did not contribute.
Turning back to the Charleston
newspapers of the war epoch, hei
name is found hundred times upor
their worn and fading pages. In 1867
the women OF the city turned then
iewelry, their diamonds-gems that
had come down to them from theil
Huguenot and English ancestors
their silver plate and inn umerable ar
ticles OF brio n brac into the money
that paid for the ironclad ship-of' wal
Palmetto State that on January 81
1868, sunk the United States gun
boat Mercedita in battle in Charles
ton Harbor. In the enterprise ofrais
! ing the construction fund Margare
, Pickens was proficient and untiring
She stripped herself of her jewelry
and she figured in a leading capacity
at the fair mr. bazaar Mt which the Wom